Movies by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
As part of the cast:
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Faces of America (2010)
Cast: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stephen Colbert, Elizabeth Alexander …
Following his acclaimed PBS series, "African American Lives," Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. again explores the lineage of Americans, using DNA analysis and in-depth research to…
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A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2010)
Cast: Suzanne Malveaux, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Eminent scholar and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. surveys his complex and transgressive career in this sit-down interview with CNN reporter Suzanne Malveaux, conducted in 2010 before…
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Looking for Lincoln (2009)
Cast: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Bill Clinton, Tony Kushner …
Digging deep to find the man behind the myth, historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. travels from Illinois to Gettysburg, Pa., to Washington, D.C., to talk to people who live, eat and breathe by…
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Leaving Cleaver: Henry Louis Gates Jr. Remembers Eldridge Cleaver (2008)
Cast: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver …
Shortly before his death in 1998, author, social activist and former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver granted his last major interview to Henry Louis Gates Jr. In this revealing documentary…
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African American Lives (2006)
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Quincy Jones, Henry Louis Gates Jr. …
Join Harvard University Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. as he leads several successful African-Americans -- including Whoopi Goldberg, Quincy Jones and Oprah Winfrey -- on a journey to discover…
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Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own (2006)
Cast: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Oprah Winfrey
Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s book Finding Oprah's Roots illuminates how to create an African-American family tree, with the popular TV personality as its example. This companion to the…
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A Place of Our Own (2004)
Cast: Fredi Washington, Lani Guinier, Henry Louis Gates Jr. …
Directed by: Stanley Nelson
Filmmaker Stanley Nelson takes a nostalgic look at a rare phenomenon -- the black-oriented middle-class resort community of Oaks Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, where Nelson and his family…
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America Beyond the Color Line (2004)
Cast: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Maya Angelou, Colin Powell …
Directed by: Mary Crisp, Daniel Percival
Prominent literary critic and scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the status of black America at the start of the 21st century in this documentary. Gates travels to the East Coast, the…
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Frontline: Two Nations of Black America (1998)
Cast: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Eldridge Cleaver, Cornel West …
Respected educator and author Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the many changes that black America has undergone in the years since Martin Luther King Jr.'s passing in this probing…